allait

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.lɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Homophones: aller, allé, allée, allés, allées, allais

Verb

allait

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of aller

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

allait f (genitive singular allaite, nominative plural allaití)

  1. shapeless mass, bundle
    1. (by extension) monolith
      Synonym: monailit
  2. shapeless, flabby, person
    1. (very informal, offensive) dog (unattractive woman)
      Synonyms: cailleach, cráin

Declension

Declension of allait (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative allait allaití
vocative a allait a allaití
genitive allaite allaití
dative allait allaití
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an allait na hallaití
genitive na hallaite na n-allaití
dative leis an allait
don allait 		leis na hallaití

Mutation

Mutated forms of allait
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
allait n-allait hallait not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “allait”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “allait”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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